[She sees that fleeting look and is very much wishing she'd not let that slip. It's not even the start of her childhood traumas, but she'd never been very good with anyone's pity.]

That's the way it works where I'm from. Stakes, holy water, beheadings, garlic, sunlight, can't come in without being invited...

[She sighs, shaking her head.] There are vampires here that don't all follow those same rules. They all seem just a little bit different.